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  1. Jan 2022
    1. For their part, people should seek out actual human beings to converse with, Markman said — and we should make a point of including a few people in our social circles who think differently from us

      This is a big step for all of us because debating someone is not presence is difficult for you to deal with. Making your own online profiles smaller would actually help you to obtain a healthier lifestyle and someone you can trust talking too. I think we all have seen cases of people been deceived via social media been catfished or scammed. This is another reason for us all to look at and make our circle smaller.

    2. "Tone of voice and gesture can have a large influence on your ability to understand what someone is saying

      This is a very strong point for any online users because without the presence of the person you arguing with, you can't tell if someone is been serious with you or not. Body language, tone of voice, eye contact, and so on can tell you so much about the person you debating.

    3. Third, it's easier to be nasty in writing than in speech, hence the now somewhat outmoded practice of leaving angry notes

      This is a very common thing among social media and you have to learn how to deal with it. People say leave some really hurtful things on your comments and if you can't deal with it, I think it will really difficult for you to move forward. You can't really tell if someone is been serious or making a joke on something. It's very important for all of us to learn not to easily get offended it by it or take it seriously.

    4. . First, commenters are often virtually anonymous, and thus, unaccountable for their rudeness.

      This is actually a fact that could be identified because many commented on social media don't have their information on their profiles like even the picture is different it's really hard to define who is behind the keyboard arguing with you and trying t defend your ideas and win.

    5. With a presidential campaign, health care and the gun control debate in the news these days, one can't help getting sucked into the flame wars that are Internet comment threads.

      I feel healthcare and gun rights are the fact the biggest social media argument wars between people. Arguing on those cases is like lighting the fire and it won't stop somewhere you prefer too because it's just so many people have been hurt from the cases or are dealing with something with it. So I think those cases are very sensitive and people still tend to argue about it which would eventually lead to emotionally hurting someone hundreds miles away from you. For my own personal sake, i never try to argue with this and take my own space from it.

    1. Even more problematically, people have a tendency to fill the gap with their own projections. “The diminished sense of the ‘presence’ of the other person as a result of these in-person missing cues also causes people to project their own expectations and anxieties on to the person being debated,” says Suler.

      I could agree with this, without the presence of the person you debating, you have more confidence, energy, and strive to say more about the subject that you might not do in presence of the other person. In many of those examples, texting with someone is very likely to be happening. When texting someone, you tend to ask more, put out more thoughts, or want to do more behind the keyboard, but that person exist in front of you, you tend to be anxious about the things you said or have confidence to act on your actions.

    2. There are a number of points to note about arguing on the internet. People don’t argue for straightforward reasons. They aren’t necessarily trying to convince the person they’re arguing with to change their mind (although some are).

      Many of us scroll through social media in their free time and we all not necessarily trying to open internet to argue and agree with someone. Rather many of us open it to check up on our friends, family, and relatives. Everyone posts anything interesting they do throughout the day and which it brings attractiveness to us to online and see it.

    3. “If you put something on Twitter it can be seen by upwards of 250 million people,” says Mc Mahon, “but you probably wrote it in silence and in physical privacy.

      I myself can relate this strongly because back in few months ago, I posted a tiktok and it got 1.1 million view in two days and I was very surprised of the power of social media and I noticed it was something people could relate too. My content was about maintaining a good relationship with your parents and I saw thousands of comments in few hours people putting out their thoughts ont he subject and it was very interesting to see many different perspectives on one subject.

    4. “We’re not wired for rational thought. We’re wired for competing against each other. We’re not wired to find the truth. We’re wired to win.”

      I totally see this point very strong and meaningful because I have witnessed online people actually compete against each other to win and spend hours on online to try drive their thoughts over someone elses and win the argument. It's very common to see something like this on common sections anu social media platforms.